A Little Change
For the second time in a week I was told by someone that "no one likes change", in this case this statement was followed by "...change equates to loss, but instead of focussing on loss you need to realize that that loss equates with new opportunity".
I am baffled by the first half of the statement, and couldn't agree more with the last half.
Public Service Announcement: Neither loving or hating change is right or wrong, I'm an equal opportunity changer. I'm just saying: I take issue with those that say NO ONE likes it.
I googled "Change is"and came back with this:
Change is Good
Change is Gonna Come
The Change is a Good Movie (disagree)
Change is Hard
However, as I went into Google Trends to discover that:
Change Hard = 1.17
Change Good = 1.00
Change Bad = 0.42
How I adore your ranking ways Google trends, because you are absolutely right:
Change is hard, and it is also GOOD.
I'm not saying that loss isn't hard, and it isn't sometimes sad or even bad. A death, a divorce, a disaster...they are all loss and can bitterly painful. I am with the rest of the world in not enjoying experiences such as this...but even these things over time leave me with a strange appreciation for the growth that came out of them.
However, each day, things change. The boss leaves at work. Something you've done a million times doesn't work because some variable fails. Your favourite jeans bite the dust. Roll up the rim ends. You change, grow, learn.
I actually, truly and completely love change. I change my mind (very frequently which drives PH nuts), quite possibly because it allows me to imagine in vivid detail every possible scenario. I love changing my plans for the day and doing something completely unexpected. I move my furniture around because moving houses annually is cost prohibitive. I love having random people or dogs come into my home and turn it upside down (at least temporarily). I like people who keep me on my toes, it makes me feel respected...trusted. Like I can handle a little ambiguity, or maybe even roll, dance and sing in it.
Perhaps this is why I am smitten with digital media. It is ever changing, evolving, adapting. It moves at the speed of light. Gone are the days of corporate speak where you craft messages, send them through 18 levels of approvals. You can't wait 5 minutes to respond, you need to respond now, minute 1 to minute 5 can make the difference between a:
@Dude: Hey @Customer I know right? Total #Fail moment - sorry about that!
@Customer: Totally understandable, we all screw up @Dude!
@Dude: @Customer ...?
@Customer: @Dude WHY DID YOU SACRIFICE THIS PUPPY?!
I am baffled by the first half of the statement, and couldn't agree more with the last half.
Public Service Announcement: Neither loving or hating change is right or wrong, I'm an equal opportunity changer. I'm just saying: I take issue with those that say NO ONE likes it.
I googled "Change is"and came back with this:
Change is Good
Change is Gonna Come
The Change is a Good Movie (disagree)
Change is Hard
However, as I went into Google Trends to discover that:
Change Hard = 1.17
Change Good = 1.00
Change Bad = 0.42
How I adore your ranking ways Google trends, because you are absolutely right:
Change is hard, and it is also GOOD.
I'm not saying that loss isn't hard, and it isn't sometimes sad or even bad. A death, a divorce, a disaster...they are all loss and can bitterly painful. I am with the rest of the world in not enjoying experiences such as this...but even these things over time leave me with a strange appreciation for the growth that came out of them.
However, each day, things change. The boss leaves at work. Something you've done a million times doesn't work because some variable fails. Your favourite jeans bite the dust. Roll up the rim ends. You change, grow, learn.
I actually, truly and completely love change. I change my mind (very frequently which drives PH nuts), quite possibly because it allows me to imagine in vivid detail every possible scenario. I love changing my plans for the day and doing something completely unexpected. I move my furniture around because moving houses annually is cost prohibitive. I love having random people or dogs come into my home and turn it upside down (at least temporarily). I like people who keep me on my toes, it makes me feel respected...trusted. Like I can handle a little ambiguity, or maybe even roll, dance and sing in it.
Perhaps this is why I am smitten with digital media. It is ever changing, evolving, adapting. It moves at the speed of light. Gone are the days of corporate speak where you craft messages, send them through 18 levels of approvals. You can't wait 5 minutes to respond, you need to respond now, minute 1 to minute 5 can make the difference between a:
Minute 1:
@Customer: Hey @Dude, what were you thinking?
@Dude: Hey @Customer I know right? Total #Fail moment - sorry about that!
@Customer: Totally understandable, we all screw up @Dude!
and Minute 5:
@Customer: @Dude DIE YOU PUPPY SACRIFICING DEMON, DIE!
@Dude: @Customer ...?
@Customer: @Dude WHY DID YOU SACRIFICE THIS PUPPY?!
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| ....why would you want people to think that?! |
...particularly if you're in an industry or business that has hundreds of thousands of customers, responsiveness and adaptability to change separates the men from the boys. I also love that this very change that we resist, fight, battle, whine, gnash our teeth about (remember back to the last facebook update?) is the very thing that will allow us to connect personally with those bazillions of people in a personal way, to forge connections where there were none before. I'm not saying it needs to stay online, but it's a heck of a lot more awesome (for reasons too lengthy to list) than going door to door to meet them over the dinner hour, assuming they'd even be home then.
How do you feel about change? Love it, hate it?
I am awful at certain types of change. Specifically, endings. I love new things but have great difficulty moving on from old things. It's a constant struggle.
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